Yeah, all those Harken Energy articles really were overkill

Washington Post reporter Perry Bacon, giving undue attention to right-wing media critics:

Perry Bacon Jr.: The New Mexico governor Bill Richardsson was basically denied a Cabinet post on the basis of a scandal for which little has proven. The Post has highlighted the problems of Jack Abramoff, a mainly Republican lobbyist, but also John Murtha, a veteran Democrat. Not sure I see much here, although I know Andrew Brietbart, who I worked on these ACORN videos and is a big media critic who I wrote a piece about last week, claims conservatives scandals are covered much more than liberal ones.

Sigh.  Why would Bacon take that seriously?  Why would he think Breitbart's claim is so important, it deserves to be the only media criticism he mentions?  And how can any Washington Post reporter cite complaints that "conservatives scandals are covered much more than liberal ones" without responding with the words "Whitewater" or "Lewinsky"?  Or, for that matter, "Harken"?